Victim of fiery wreck identified

San Diego  A man who died in a fiery crash early Sunday in Mira Mesa has been identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office as Brian Joseph Ellermeier, 39, of Bremerton, Wash.

Ellermeier was alone in a rented Ford Mustang and was driving west on Mira Mesa Boulevard, near Westonhill Drive, when for unknown reasons he lost control of the car about 2 a.m., the medical examiner said. It struck the center median and then a tree.

A nearby resident called 911, while another removed him from the burning vehicle, the medical examiner said.

Paramedics were unable to resuscitate him.

According to the Kitsap Sun newspaper, Ellermeier worked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.